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we're ready to return to the pbs newshour. thanks again for your support. >> ifill: finally tonight, a look at one element of syria's opposition, the free syrian army. many are defectors from syria's regular army that is putting down the anti-assad rebellion with brutal efficiency. hugh macleod and annasofie flamand, a reporting team from our international news web site partners, global post, spent time with the fighters in northern lebanon. an unnamed photographer accompanied them into syria.ri macleod voiced this report. >> reporter: these guys with me are from the free syrian army. they are defected soldiers from the army of the syrian regime. i feel proud that we the free syrian army can say that we are here, we are here on the ground. and hopefully soon we will conduct large operations, operations to topple the regime. >> one year into his brutal crackdown on peaceful protests syrian president bashar al assad is facing an armed insurgency by the rebel fighters of the free syrian army. the group is led by officers and sold
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now back to the pbs newshour. and >> ifill: finally tonight, the continuing influence of julia child on cooking and american tastes. today would have been the famous french chef's 100th birthday. the tributes have already begun for one of the original pioneers in the pbs family. we have our own look and jeffrey brown is our guide. >> the chicken sisters! ms. boiler, ms. fryer... >> brown: a little confidence, julia child taught several generations of americans, is all you need to cook french cuisine. oh, and a lot of butter. >> if you that then the butter won't burn. >> brown: in fact, it wasn't until her 30s that child even began cooking. she was born in pasadena in 1912, and during world war two, worked for the o.s.s., the precursor to the c.i.a. then in 1949, while her husband was stationed in paris as a foreign service officer, she enrolled at the famed cordon bleu school of cooking. in 1961, she published the first of 18 books and the one that made her a national name. "mastering the art of french cooking" no
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and by contributions to your pbs statn fr viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: tough new rhetoric dominated the presidential campaign during the last 24 hours. it was the latest evidence that the battle for the white house will be no holds barred. the pre-convention presidential campaign has become increasingly defined by acrimony and accusation. >> this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. >> they are just throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks. >> ifill: a w waof wor was launched tuesday, as vice president biden went after republican mitt romney in danville, virginia. >> romney wants to let-- he said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they're gog to put y'all back in chains. >> ifill: republicans expressed immediate outrage. later in the day, the vice president said he'd meant to say "unshackled." but he did not apologize. >> i got a message for them. if you want to know what's outrageous, it's their policies and the effects of thei
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now back to the pbs newshour. thanks again for your support., >> ifill: now to the story of the americans, including the son of a cabinet secretary, who traveled to egypt to observe the elections and ended up under arrest. ray suarez has our story. >> suarez: for the year since president hosni mubarak was overthrown, there's been continuing unrest in egypt. protesters have demanded immediate reforms and an early end to the interim government installed by the military. the regime, in turn, targeted foreign groups that observe elections and promote democracy in egypt. a court charged 43 foreigners with stoking unrest and the government barred them from leaving egypt. the group included 16 americans, although nine had already left. those remaining included sam lahood, son of transportation secretary ray lahood, and director of the international republican institute. that sparked warnings from washington about more than $1 billion in american aid. >> we are very clear that there we have worked very hard the last year
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now back to the pbs newshour. and thank you. >> woodruff: "need to know" airs tonight on most of these public television stations. check your local listing. >> suarez: finally tonight, one other story about the emotional toll of fukushima, a year later. it's not well known there were 38 americans at the fukushima plant when the earthquake hit. carl pilliteri, a nuclear technician, was one of them. he recently spoke with alex chadwick, the host for the new american public media series, "burn: an energy journal." it's the first time any american who was at the plant has spoken at length to the media. he started out by telling chadwick what it was like inside the turbine building that day. >> the entire building was moving, then, i remember praying aloud for everyone, for all of us, just praying aloud. i'm thinking that were going to perish inside this turbine building, and i could still hear the turbine making its most unwelcome sounds in front of us there. >> reporter: can you describe what the sounds were like com
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now back to the pbs newshour. and thank you. >> woodruff: finally tonight, our series on teachers, testing and accountability. on monday and tuesday, we heard from philanthropist melinda gates of the gates foundation. and diane ravitch, a historian and former assistant secretary of education. tonight, we listen to teachers. ray suarez recently moderated a conversation, organized by wnet in new york city, featuring educators from each of the city's five boroughs. it's part of our american graduate project sponsored by the corporation for public broadcasting and the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> suarez: earlier this spring we invited teachers to talk about the crisis. they are kalila brand, amanda moskowitz, a science at math teacher at p.s. 279. captain man well rivera middle school. seth cupperman, a science teacher at manhattan's high school for math, science and engineering, jean raleigh for p.s. 19 in stat tan island and babson wang, a math teacher at by a side high school in queens. i wanted to talk to
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it's going to get on pbs as we said. so it's going to become part of that i guess, part of that debate. >> it is. and one of the things that i felt was vital, and you know at this moment in time as we're debating healthcare crises on a very high level when policies are being made that are going to affect individuals and communities for possibly generations, that people's voices particularly in public hospitals like this one and hospitals around the country were not being heard, and were not being represented in that conversation. we felt it was of to bring them into that conversation and be, to do it in way that was as non-political as possible. now, every filmmaker brings some kind of, you know, agenda to the table. we all have our personal beliefs and certainly i do. but primary that is that we need a better more equitable healthcare system and that here's this community of people who are trying to navigate the system. we wanted to do it in way that just allowed their voices to come through naturally with us as film ma
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the first presidential debate is behind them, but the two sides went at it again today. republicans said their man took it to the president in the denver duel. the obama camp charged the truth got trampled in the process. >> la night i thought was a great opportunity for the american people to see two very different visions for the country. and -- (applause) -- and i think it was helpful to be able to describe those visions. i said the president's vision is trickle-down government and i don't think that's what america believes in. i see instead a prosperity that comes through freedom. >> reporter: romney's reception at the event was reinforced by instant polling that he won last night's encounter by more than 2-1. but at an obama rally in denver, the president charged romney had repeatedly misrepresented his own positions on jobs and taxes. >> so you see the man on stage last night, he does not want to be held accountable for the real mitt romney's decisions an
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the first presidential debate is behind them, but the two sides went at it again today. republicans said their man took it to the president in the denver duel. the obama camp charged the truth got trampled in the process. >> la night i thought was a great opportunity for the american people to see two very different visions for the country. and -- (applause) -- and i think it was helpful to be...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the number of new american jobs was higher in july, but so was the unemployment rate. the dueling data left everyone to draw their own conclusions from job seekers to presidential hopefuls. a hot july of getting away from it all for some and worrying about the economy for nearly everyone. today, after three sluggish months, the labor department said that in july, employers added 163,000 jobs-- the most since february. on average, there've been 151,000 jobs added each month this year, but that's still not enough to push down the unemployment rate. and last month, the rate actually ticked up a tenth to 8.3%, as more people reported they were unemployed, and the size of the labor force actually fell. glass half full, glass half empty. the numbers were ready fodder for the presidential candidates. republican mitt romney spoke in las vegas. >> today, we just got a new number from the unemployment report and it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle class fam
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the number of new american jobs was higher in july, but so was the unemployment rate. the dueling data left everyone to draw their own conclusions from job seekers to presidential hopefuls. a hot july of getting away from it all for some and worrying about the economy for nearly everyone. today, after three sluggish months, the labor department said that in july, employers added 163,000 jobs-- the most...
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but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> ifill: for those stations not taking a pledge break. we take an encore look at the work of a scientist who spends his days investigating killer diseases, trying to stop them in their tracks. ray suarez has our story. >> reporter: a nondescript office building in downtown san francisco may seem an unlikely headquarters for one of the world's most prominent virus hunters, but it's where stanford university biologist nathan wolfe has setup his war room to monitor and study new, and potentially deadly, viruses emerging around the globe. the 41-year-old wolfe is the founder and director of the global viral forecasting initiative. the mission sounds simple but it's not: detect pandemics and stop them before they spread. how wolfe and his team do that is a mix of high tech detective work and old fashioned on the ground epidemiology research and it's the subj
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pbs for artists, one tremendous thing about pbs is that it makes art accessible by putting it on a platform where millions of people can access it for free. on pbs, many people have seen something they would never see otherwise. the language of music so universal, it can touch someone anywhere. and we need it. we need music, we need dance, we need great theater. we need all these things for our soul, you know, for joy and peace in our lives. after all these millennia, art is still something that survives. a lot of people don't have the means or aren't even aware that's something out there, and they may flip on pbs and e something that wakes up that integral part of being a human being which is enjoying the arts of other human beings. i feel like that's important to me. so i'm grateful for pbs {thank you} as an artist and as a viewer.
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: this was primary day in arizona and michigan, with 59 republican delegates at stake. mitt romney and rick santorum were the main contenders, and tensions were high, especially in michigan. the romney campaign went into the day struggling to hold off what has turned out to be an aggressive and heated challenge from rick santorum in romney's native state. in the final days before today's open primary, the santorum campaign has staked its claim in michigan even using automated robo-calls to get democratic crossover votes. >> michigan democrats can vote in the republican primary on tuesday. why is it so important? romney's supporting the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker. and we're not going to let romney get away with it. >> ifill: as polls showed an election day dead heat, romney accused santorum of using dirty tricks to win. >> it's very easy to excite the base with i
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: this was primary day in arizona and michigan, with 59 republican delegates at stake. mitt romney and rick santorum were the main contenders, and tensions were high, especially in michigan. the romney campaign went into the day struggling to hold off what has turned out to be an aggressive and heated challenge from rick santorum in romney's native state. in the final days before today's open primary, the...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: "it was just another regular day in damascus." the words of a resident of the syrian capital where on this day, shelling and clashes were intense. government forces backed by tanks and helicopters attacked an area just outside the city and the last of the united nations military observers left, unable to st the violence. thick, black smoke billowed above the daraya suburb of damascus today, as bashar al- assad's military pounded parts of the capital. elements loyal to assad were said to be going house to house in search of regime opponents. by late morning today, an opposition group said more than 70 people had been killed there, a claim impossible to verify. the offensive is part of a renewed government campaign that began yesterday against neighborhoods where the rebellion has proven resilient in and around damascus. among those caught in the crossfire-- five children and their mother, reportedly killed by government shelling-- their bodies wrapped and laid in r
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: "it was just another regular day in damascus." the words of a resident of the syrian capital where on this day, shelling and clashes were intense. government forces backed by tanks and helicopters attacked an area just outside the city and the last of the united nations military observers left, unable to st the violence. thick, black smoke billowed above the daraya suburb of damascus today, as...
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it premieres tonight on pbs. the first episode focuses on jobs and, in part, the challenges of legal immigration. here's a sampling from the documentary, featuring the story of a taiwanese doctoral student at washington university in st. louis. i am the series narrator. >> suarez: u.s. university still attracts many of the world's most promising students in science and technology. but more than ever the u.s. is facing competition to keep them, especially from india, china, korea and japan. >> taiwanese barbecue flavor. it's okay, right. >> it's okay. >> wei-jin is interest taiwan. in the field of imology she is one of the world's best and brightest. her research keeps her notice laboratory 60 hour ace week. >> it's not all i do. >> one of my new year's resolution is to learn how to watch football, american football. >> and what is a first down. >> first down -- >> i didn't know anything so to me it was always about beer and pizza, popcorn. >> so they can get either one or two extra points. >> they're going to go
it premieres tonight on pbs. the first episode focuses on jobs and, in part, the challenges of legal immigration. here's a sampling from the documentary, featuring the story of a taiwanese doctoral student at washington university in st. louis. i am the series narrator. >> suarez: u.s. university still attracts many of the world's most promising students in science and technology. but more than ever the u.s. is facing competition to keep them, especially from india, china, korea and...
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now back to the pbs newshour. thanks again for your support. >> brown: if anyone needed evidence of the changing world of media and technology, more came today in the form of a poll published by "time" magazine that checked in consumers in eight nations, including the u.s. among the highlights 20,% of respondents said they check their mobile device every 10 minutes and 84% said they couldn't go a single day without their mobile devices. we, of course, have been taking a regular look at how such changes are playing out in the presidential campaign and our team from the daily download web site is back again tonight. lauren ashe burne is the site's editor-in-chief, howard curt is host of cnn's "reliable sources q." what do you make of those numbers? >> it's a wired world. i check mine more frequently. >> brown: you're not shocked. >> not at all. >> brown: the biggest news in the campaign was the selection of paul ryan. how did that play out in your world? >> well the campaign itself has turned online on twitter, for
now back to the pbs newshour. thanks again for your support. >> brown: if anyone needed evidence of the changing world of media and technology, more came today in the form of a poll published by "time" magazine that checked in consumers in eight nations, including the u.s. among the highlights 20,% of respondents said they check their mobile device every 10 minutes and 84% said they couldn't go a single day without their mobile devices. we, of course, have been taking a regular...
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it originated on the bbc, and also aired on pbs. later, hughes wrote and presented "american visions," another series that aired on pbs. here's an excerpt of hughes discssuing the work of the american painter, winslow homer. >> his great subject was always before him, the sea. it is a field of primal encounter. homer insists that you are always alone before it, which you are. for him it is bound up with his rejection of industrial america. the machine enslaves the men who serve it. only in the woods or on the ocean or on its rocks are we truly free, truly american. he understood the structure of waves, currents, surges, loops of foam, the sheer power of the water breaking over cannon rock, its relentlessness and its strange, fickle, yet maternal beauty. >> brown: another hugely influential figure in the world of cultural criticism, judith crist, died today at age 90. she was a champion of a new generation of american and international directors and actors in the 1960s. and, like robert hughes, she was more than ready with a sharp zi
it originated on the bbc, and also aired on pbs. later, hughes wrote and presented "american visions," another series that aired on pbs. here's an excerpt of hughes discssuing the work of the american painter, winslow homer. >> his great subject was always before him, the sea. it is a field of primal encounter. homer insists that you are always alone before it, which you are. for him it is bound up with his rejection of industrial america. the machine enslaves the men who serve...
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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: after a weekend spent together, the romney-ryan team split up today to hunt for votes in the south and midwest. president obama and vice- president biden were in the same regions, and the two sides trained their sights on each other. >> holman: mitt romney stumped solo this morning for the first time since saturday, when he announced wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his vice presidential choice. in st. augustine, florida, the republican presidential hopeful praised ryan as "a great leader." >> a man who has proven that he knows how to solve problems. he did not just go to washington, d.c. and become involved in public service to try and make a name for himself; he instead went to make things better for the american people. >> holman: ryan, 42, is married and has three school-age children. he was a protege of former republican congressman and vice presidential candidate jack kemp. ryan first was elected to congress in 1998 and now is serving his seventh term. he
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: after a weekend spent together, the romney-ryan team split up today to hunt for votes in the south and midwest. president obama and vice- president biden were in the same regions, and the two sides trained their sights on each other. >> holman: mitt romney stumped solo this morning for the first time since saturday, when he announced wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his vice presidential choice....
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but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for yo >> good evening, and thank you for joining us for another edition of the pbs newshour. i'm paul anthony with kimberly suiters. as you may know, we take these opportunities a few times a year to ask for viewer support. now, each time, we count on contributions from a few more people like you. and if you haven't made a gift yet, we're hoping that tonight will be your night. each evening on the pbs newshour, you are witnessing collaboration at its best. the team of anchors, reporters, producers, field and studio crews are all working on different tasks but toward the same goal-- to bring you an unbiased account of the day's news. as you can tell, each time you tune in, they take this responsibility very seriously. but there is another important collaboration going on. that is the collaboration between viewers and this station. these are viewers who financially support the station. they are the ones who make this service-- inc
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our encore look comes from pbs station wgbh in boston. the reporter is jared bowen. >> reporter: "porgy and bess," much like the tale of tortured romance it tells, has been mightily tossed by storms during its 76-year history-caught in tempests over creative license and charges of racism. now it is once again at the american repertory theater in cambridge which is staging a new adaptation. >> bess, you is my woman now. >> reporter: the show is set in catfish row-- a fictionalized enclave of charleston, south carolina where drugs and violence are pervasive. it's after a murder that the drug-addled bess lands in the arms of the crippled beggar porgy. this view of african american life in the 1930s came from the shows white creators-- george and ira gershwin and dubose heyward. david alan grier plays sporting life, a drug dealer. >> it was a different time. you know, the outlet of black voices, black intellectuals to tell our story was different. >> reporter: from the moment george gershwin chose to adapt dubose heywards novel porgy into an
our encore look comes from pbs station wgbh in boston. the reporter is jared bowen. >> reporter: "porgy and bess," much like the tale of tortured romance it tells, has been mightily tossed by storms during its 76-year history-caught in tempests over creative license and charges of racism. now it is once again at the american repertory theater in cambridge which is staging a new adaptation. >> bess, you is my woman now. >> reporter: the show is set in catfish row-- a...